MORTGAGING AFRICA, DESTROYING THE CHANCES OF THE
NEXT GENERATION
Nelson Mandela was not buying or selling anything neither did he build great companies that are bringing in so much money today, but with a life well lived, he single handed made Africa into a global monumental wonder. When sound values is constantly been squandered on the alter of what to eat, then there is practically no hope for a nation. Africans have reduced Africa to a continent that has no regard for human institutions. From health to security, to power and to everything, Africa is a capital by-word. We have all sold Africa away. But nemesis is usually a very fair judge. Today, the world has no regards for Africans, because when you consciously damage the institutions in Africa, you puncture the balloon of your status. You can not escape the very demeaning tag of been an African. If you like, run to America and nationalise, the blood you carry remains African. Since we have all collectively messed up the African continent, if ever the next generation will stand a good chance among the committee of thriving nations, we must do the following:
1. We must live in honour: Let every African decide today that no more will they find our hands in events that will consolidate the negative picture the world already have about us. Let us be good specimen and representatives of the African continent. We must practically resist anyone that would want to bring the continent into disrepute in any way.
2. We must demonstrate high level patriotism: Let every African demonstrate a very high level patriotism at every level. Show your very high level love for Africa, talk about it, demonstrate it, sing about it, anything you can do to let the world know your love for Africa is true
3. We must take responsibility: When we keep looking for who to blame, we will continuously limit how far we can go. The Europeans have left us long time ago. We need to move on. We know that the military raped us but they have since moved back to the barracks. Let us keep closed every chapter that has since been closed. There is great work to be done.
4. We must patiently unleash our creative and innovative geniuses: Great thinkers will always be at the vanguard of national and even global development. You must believe in our creativity and innovativeness. We have what it takes to advance the course of our continent. Let us not live things to chance.
With every one doing his own part, I guarantee you that Africa will become a very great continent again.
Friday 26 August 2016
Saturday 20 August 2016
THE HIGH PRICE FOR FAILURE
You do not fail by chance, failure is a very conscious thing. Some people will still and would have still failed even if the devil were absent. Even though failure is a very difficult status to attain in life, very many people are not too timid to pay the price. Destiny is an idea, it is not a verdict and even if it was a verdict, it can be altered. So, to use destiny as an excuse for your outcome in life is the highest form of foolery. Even though I may not remember how exactly it was said, but what some one said has struck a chord in me "I am a success today, because I did not know it was impossible for it to be so". The flip side of this would be "I am a failure today because I did not know it was impossible for me to be so". This therefore means, even if you were destined for greatness, you could still fail massively if you are willing to pay the price.
I would just point out few of the price you would have to pay:
Trivialise the issue of your choice of a spouse: The life of Whitney Houston became completely crushed because she didn't know that committing herself to Bobby Brown was an ultimate price she would have to pay for failure. Even though she was destined for greatness, she died a huge mess.
Misusing people: Gaddafi made his people into puppets. In Tunisia and Egypt, we had RULERS who felt they could continuously trample on the people. But by the time the ARAB SPRING emerged, it became clear that these RULERS had paid the ultimate price for failure.
Starting out too late: Messi at less than 30 has gotten to the peak of his career. Can you imagine if he were to join the professional league at 40? The quickest way to failure is to keep for later what you should do quickly. The other five foolish virgins went for extra oil very late, no wonder they missed the coming of the bridegroom?
Direct disdain for God: Everyone that displayed their disdain for God Almighty never stood a chance. This is the surest way I know to been a total failure. Everyone that have tried it all were grounded to powder.
No restrain / no discipline: Have sex with anyone and everyone. Buy anything and everything you desire. Eat anything and everything you want. Just do as you please. Do not initiate restrain or discipline and see how quick it is to be a world class super failure? When there are no borders or boundaries in your life, failure is the surest thing that can happen.
I cannot count how many people have joined the failure train all around the world today. So, if its your choice to join them these are some of the things to do, even though there are many more but I can guarantee you, when you do all these, there is certain no way you will not fail. I truly want to wish you ill as you do all this and I would say sincerely, see you on the other side of failure. But the only thing I would like to say is that, you better expect someone else to welcome you when you arrive because CERTAINLY I WILL NOT BE THERE AT ALL!!!
Monday 15 August 2016
CHARACTER: THE FOUNDATIONAL STRENGTH FOR AN IMPACTFUL
LIVING
Jonas Junis, a 22 year old boxer from Namibia who was the country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony ( at the Rio Olympic) was accused by a maid of grabbing her, kissing her forcefully, and then offering her money to have sexual relations with him. Olympic officials confirmed on Monday that Junis was arrested. Brazilian law considers any non consensual sexual act as rape. If convicted, Junis could face six to ten years in Prison.
From 2008 - 2011, Dominique Strauss Khahn took part in a series of 12 sex parties in three countries. And before his arrest in New York in May 2011. he attempted raping a hotel chambermaid. This is the same man that rose to becoming the president of the IMF and making up to 2.4 million pounds annually from his international consulting business
Today, the name Lance Armstrong who was one of the greatest cyclist in the world has become a by word because he got himself into a very huge mess of very hard enhancement drugs. He was stripped of all his very many achievements in one day. No wonder Martin Luther says, the true worth of a man is not in the colour of his skin but in the content of his character. When character is lost, a man';s world must come crashing down.
Every man chooses to be a gift or a curse to his generation: Singapore would have remained one of the very dark world if somebody like Lee Khuan Yew did not make up his mind to cause an unrivalled transformation. But look at how Idi Amin of Uganda, Charles Taylor of Liberia so raped their countries?
Every nation is as good as it's people: Most Americans would rather die than have gun banned but there is no way you can think or talk about serial killing without America taking the front stage. When a people don't grow, it delays the progress of the nation.
Character is the frame that holds the human composition together: Have you wondered why Mike Tyson quickly faded away from the hall of fame? Why do you think Donald Trump is always having to eat his words? All of a sudden, Bill Cosby became a huge mess. When you develop everything else apart from character, you will make a very big wreck of yourself.
Decide that your song when you are gone will be beautiful: Today, each time Nigerians remember Abacha, what comes to mind is pain and horror. But we can't stop wishing we had people like Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa come live with us again.
I will borrow from Bill Hybels to say '' When a leader gets better, everyone wins''.
LIVING
Jonas Junis, a 22 year old boxer from Namibia who was the country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony ( at the Rio Olympic) was accused by a maid of grabbing her, kissing her forcefully, and then offering her money to have sexual relations with him. Olympic officials confirmed on Monday that Junis was arrested. Brazilian law considers any non consensual sexual act as rape. If convicted, Junis could face six to ten years in Prison.
From 2008 - 2011, Dominique Strauss Khahn took part in a series of 12 sex parties in three countries. And before his arrest in New York in May 2011. he attempted raping a hotel chambermaid. This is the same man that rose to becoming the president of the IMF and making up to 2.4 million pounds annually from his international consulting business
Today, the name Lance Armstrong who was one of the greatest cyclist in the world has become a by word because he got himself into a very huge mess of very hard enhancement drugs. He was stripped of all his very many achievements in one day. No wonder Martin Luther says, the true worth of a man is not in the colour of his skin but in the content of his character. When character is lost, a man';s world must come crashing down.
Every man chooses to be a gift or a curse to his generation: Singapore would have remained one of the very dark world if somebody like Lee Khuan Yew did not make up his mind to cause an unrivalled transformation. But look at how Idi Amin of Uganda, Charles Taylor of Liberia so raped their countries?
Every nation is as good as it's people: Most Americans would rather die than have gun banned but there is no way you can think or talk about serial killing without America taking the front stage. When a people don't grow, it delays the progress of the nation.
Character is the frame that holds the human composition together: Have you wondered why Mike Tyson quickly faded away from the hall of fame? Why do you think Donald Trump is always having to eat his words? All of a sudden, Bill Cosby became a huge mess. When you develop everything else apart from character, you will make a very big wreck of yourself.
Decide that your song when you are gone will be beautiful: Today, each time Nigerians remember Abacha, what comes to mind is pain and horror. But we can't stop wishing we had people like Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa come live with us again.
I will borrow from Bill Hybels to say '' When a leader gets better, everyone wins''.
Sunday 14 August 2016
Friday 12 August 2016
MY MARRIAGE, MY HELL FIRE!!
Great marriages don't happen by miracles but by a solid willingness to make it better. In as much as people get married almost daily, similarly 'divorces' is also becoming a daily routine. Many marriages have become very huge torment for most people and many are looking for the tiniest of excuses to call it quit.
God has helped me to interact with a lot of couples who thought their marriages were HELL FIRE, to see that it could be better. I am happy because they decided to give their marriage a chance.
There is a limit to which God can go in your marriage:
God will not make love to your husband or
wife, neither will He come and cook the meals. When couples are not too willing to learn the art of sex or cooking, then you should expect another hell fire in your home. Great sex is a very vital tool to intimacy. Please learn how to get it done very well, both the man and woman. When physicality is broken, your marriage is at risk. Anointing will never take the place of a very great sex life, plan it and make it enriching. Do not always let it happen by chance all the time. Even those quickies could be done creatively.
Talk about everything that appear like a threat:
You must never be too reserved to talk to your spouse. Talk about your sex life, health, finance, children, fears. In fact, just talk about your doubts, fears. Never you bottle them up. Your marriage is worth all your creative efforts. If the sex was not great tonight, talk about how it could be better, if the food didn't come out well, speak on how it could be better. Just talk.
The place of your spouse:
You have to watch it anytime your spouse is substituted. You cannot marry your mother, sports, job. No other person should take the place of your spouse. Run home to be with your spouse. Nobody has it all together.
A bunch of dirty things:
Forget all those facades you saw when you were dating, nobody is as clean as they appear, in fact anybody that appears too clean could have a lot of dirt in his/her closet. Your marriage becomes your hell fire when you don't prepare your heart for these. The woman might be very lazy with chores but good in business. The man might be poor financially but very supportive. Every human being carries a lot of dirty things into marriage that might go away with time. Some never goes. Some you will endure, while some you will enjoy. Make up your mind, you will enjoy and endure as instance demands
A time to grow or go:
There are certain things you grow through or must go through. But there are other times you just have to call it quit. Even though I will never encourage divorce, the decision is up to you. If every time he beats you up at the slightest provocation and it lands you in the hospital, you sure have a decision to make? If after he raped the house girl, got her pregnant and then deny it blatantly but orders a very dangerous abortion even though she was eight months gone. then you should know when enough is enough?
Above all, you should know when it is God's fault, your fault or the devil's fault. If is God's fault, just wait on God. If it is your fault, work on it but if it is the devil's fault, it is time to fight for your marriage and team up with God to send the devil back to hell. Your marriage will not fail.
Great marriages don't happen by miracles but by a solid willingness to make it better. In as much as people get married almost daily, similarly 'divorces' is also becoming a daily routine. Many marriages have become very huge torment for most people and many are looking for the tiniest of excuses to call it quit.
God has helped me to interact with a lot of couples who thought their marriages were HELL FIRE, to see that it could be better. I am happy because they decided to give their marriage a chance.
There is a limit to which God can go in your marriage:
God will not make love to your husband or
wife, neither will He come and cook the meals. When couples are not too willing to learn the art of sex or cooking, then you should expect another hell fire in your home. Great sex is a very vital tool to intimacy. Please learn how to get it done very well, both the man and woman. When physicality is broken, your marriage is at risk. Anointing will never take the place of a very great sex life, plan it and make it enriching. Do not always let it happen by chance all the time. Even those quickies could be done creatively.
Talk about everything that appear like a threat:
You must never be too reserved to talk to your spouse. Talk about your sex life, health, finance, children, fears. In fact, just talk about your doubts, fears. Never you bottle them up. Your marriage is worth all your creative efforts. If the sex was not great tonight, talk about how it could be better, if the food didn't come out well, speak on how it could be better. Just talk.
The place of your spouse:
You have to watch it anytime your spouse is substituted. You cannot marry your mother, sports, job. No other person should take the place of your spouse. Run home to be with your spouse. Nobody has it all together.
A bunch of dirty things:
Forget all those facades you saw when you were dating, nobody is as clean as they appear, in fact anybody that appears too clean could have a lot of dirt in his/her closet. Your marriage becomes your hell fire when you don't prepare your heart for these. The woman might be very lazy with chores but good in business. The man might be poor financially but very supportive. Every human being carries a lot of dirty things into marriage that might go away with time. Some never goes. Some you will endure, while some you will enjoy. Make up your mind, you will enjoy and endure as instance demands
A time to grow or go:
There are certain things you grow through or must go through. But there are other times you just have to call it quit. Even though I will never encourage divorce, the decision is up to you. If every time he beats you up at the slightest provocation and it lands you in the hospital, you sure have a decision to make? If after he raped the house girl, got her pregnant and then deny it blatantly but orders a very dangerous abortion even though she was eight months gone. then you should know when enough is enough?
Above all, you should know when it is God's fault, your fault or the devil's fault. If is God's fault, just wait on God. If it is your fault, work on it but if it is the devil's fault, it is time to fight for your marriage and team up with God to send the devil back to hell. Your marriage will not fail.
Monday 8 August 2016
CUT TO SIZE
The local criminals in my country devised a way of cutting very long double barrel guns to very short and portable sizes that makes it easier to carry, hence the name CUT TO SIZE. Most humans have also devised methods of cutting to size, great things that they come in contact with. I have seen people who joined the staff of potentially great companies but ended up destroying such companies. Many people have entered into relationships and ended up cutting their partners to size. On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton's, in Beverly Hills, California. The official coroner's report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. This was the same lady The Guiness World Records in 2009 cited as the most awarded female act of all time. Pop music's best selling music artists of all time, with an estimated 170 - 200 million records sold worldwide. She was the only artist to chart seven consecutive no. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. She was the second artist behind Elton John and the only woman to have two number one Billboard 200 albums on the billboard magazine year end charts. Her debut album, Whitney Houston ( 1985), became the best selling debut album by a woman in history. Her first movie, Bodyguard, original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for album of the year. It's lead single, ''I will always love you' won the Grammy award for record of the year and became the best selling single by a woman in music history. The soundtrack for her 1996 movie, The Preacher's Wife, became the best selling gospel album in history.
Her life started to degenerate the moment she met Bobby Brown. He so cut her to size to the point that death ended it for her. Bobby exposed her to all kinds of very weird things including hard drugs. Whitney's behaviour began to change, she was now often late for interviews, photo shoots and rehearsals, and cancelling concerts and talk show appearances. On January 11, 2000, airport security guards discovered marijuana in both Houston's and husband Bobby Brown's luggage at a Hawaii airport.
Well, to cut the very long story short, Bobby Brown successfully succeeded in cutting Whitney to size, that today, she is no more.
Who has your husband/ wife become with you in her/ his life? It is not too late to retrace your step. Become an agent of goodness and not a CUT TO SIZE
The local criminals in my country devised a way of cutting very long double barrel guns to very short and portable sizes that makes it easier to carry, hence the name CUT TO SIZE. Most humans have also devised methods of cutting to size, great things that they come in contact with. I have seen people who joined the staff of potentially great companies but ended up destroying such companies. Many people have entered into relationships and ended up cutting their partners to size. On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton's, in Beverly Hills, California. The official coroner's report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. This was the same lady The Guiness World Records in 2009 cited as the most awarded female act of all time. Pop music's best selling music artists of all time, with an estimated 170 - 200 million records sold worldwide. She was the only artist to chart seven consecutive no. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. She was the second artist behind Elton John and the only woman to have two number one Billboard 200 albums on the billboard magazine year end charts. Her debut album, Whitney Houston ( 1985), became the best selling debut album by a woman in history. Her first movie, Bodyguard, original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for album of the year. It's lead single, ''I will always love you' won the Grammy award for record of the year and became the best selling single by a woman in music history. The soundtrack for her 1996 movie, The Preacher's Wife, became the best selling gospel album in history.
Her life started to degenerate the moment she met Bobby Brown. He so cut her to size to the point that death ended it for her. Bobby exposed her to all kinds of very weird things including hard drugs. Whitney's behaviour began to change, she was now often late for interviews, photo shoots and rehearsals, and cancelling concerts and talk show appearances. On January 11, 2000, airport security guards discovered marijuana in both Houston's and husband Bobby Brown's luggage at a Hawaii airport.
Well, to cut the very long story short, Bobby Brown successfully succeeded in cutting Whitney to size, that today, she is no more.
Who has your husband/ wife become with you in her/ his life? It is not too late to retrace your step. Become an agent of goodness and not a CUT TO SIZE
Thursday 4 August 2016
SCARCITY IN ABUNDANCE
The scarcity we have right now in Nigeria is not something that should be a course for alarm because it is self inflicted. No matter how much the United Nations gives to us, after a while we will go back to poverty, because the very system we operate in Nigeria is designed to keep us very poor. I will authoritatively point out certain things that we have to consider very seriously.
OUTRAGEOUS COST OF GOVERNANCE: Nigeria has the second largest presidential fleet in the world, with 15 jets all imported and maintained abroad. The monthly upkeep is nothing less than 1 billion naira. This is an amount most of the states don't make as internally generated revenue. At the beginning of this year, the national assembly budgeted 4.7 billion on SUV's despite their car loans, pool buses and others. Hope you can see our definition of governance?
MONO ECONOMY: Since Nigeria discovered oil in the 70's, all our creative energies shut down. Very soon, oil prices will further crash like G.S.M lines and a barrel would not be worth more than 5 dollars. Nigeria suspended every other very viable part of our economy like human capital development, agriculture e.t,c, today there is hardship in the land.
CONSUMERISM: Most of our would be entrepreneurs who would have solved most of our unemployment problems all have their start up capital in their numerous brands of I phones and Brazilian hairs. Just give a Nigerian man a beautifully well garnished porridge, I guarantee you, he would kiss his future bye-bye.
DAMAGED MINDEDNESS: Have you thought about why there seem to be restiveness in the Niger Delta? We believe that the quickest way to get is to damage. But when there is too many damages, how do we achieve progress? We used to have a national carrier? What happened to our national telecom company? We do not believe in sustaining the life of anything by maintenance. Any nation that does not have the culture of maintaining it's assets will remain poor.
OUTRIGHT THEFT/ SYSTEMIC STEALING: According to Nuhu Ribadu " over 380 billion dollars has been lost to corruption in Nigeria since independence, which would have been enough to replicate Europe with it's development six times in Nigeria". We have about 170 million people in Nigeria. Nigerians living in poverty rose from 17 million in 1980- 112 million in 2010. I know you would not want to know what the figures have risen to in 2016? The largest part of the finances that would have been for making the lives of the people better are stolen by the 109 senators and 369 House of representatives members
The bigger responsibility is not with the government but with you and I. We must start with ourselves, so it becomes easier to do well when we get into government, for you can't give what you don't have
The scarcity we have right now in Nigeria is not something that should be a course for alarm because it is self inflicted. No matter how much the United Nations gives to us, after a while we will go back to poverty, because the very system we operate in Nigeria is designed to keep us very poor. I will authoritatively point out certain things that we have to consider very seriously.
OUTRAGEOUS COST OF GOVERNANCE: Nigeria has the second largest presidential fleet in the world, with 15 jets all imported and maintained abroad. The monthly upkeep is nothing less than 1 billion naira. This is an amount most of the states don't make as internally generated revenue. At the beginning of this year, the national assembly budgeted 4.7 billion on SUV's despite their car loans, pool buses and others. Hope you can see our definition of governance?
MONO ECONOMY: Since Nigeria discovered oil in the 70's, all our creative energies shut down. Very soon, oil prices will further crash like G.S.M lines and a barrel would not be worth more than 5 dollars. Nigeria suspended every other very viable part of our economy like human capital development, agriculture e.t,c, today there is hardship in the land.
CONSUMERISM: Most of our would be entrepreneurs who would have solved most of our unemployment problems all have their start up capital in their numerous brands of I phones and Brazilian hairs. Just give a Nigerian man a beautifully well garnished porridge, I guarantee you, he would kiss his future bye-bye.
DAMAGED MINDEDNESS: Have you thought about why there seem to be restiveness in the Niger Delta? We believe that the quickest way to get is to damage. But when there is too many damages, how do we achieve progress? We used to have a national carrier? What happened to our national telecom company? We do not believe in sustaining the life of anything by maintenance. Any nation that does not have the culture of maintaining it's assets will remain poor.
OUTRIGHT THEFT/ SYSTEMIC STEALING: According to Nuhu Ribadu " over 380 billion dollars has been lost to corruption in Nigeria since independence, which would have been enough to replicate Europe with it's development six times in Nigeria". We have about 170 million people in Nigeria. Nigerians living in poverty rose from 17 million in 1980- 112 million in 2010. I know you would not want to know what the figures have risen to in 2016? The largest part of the finances that would have been for making the lives of the people better are stolen by the 109 senators and 369 House of representatives members
The bigger responsibility is not with the government but with you and I. We must start with ourselves, so it becomes easier to do well when we get into government, for you can't give what you don't have
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